Photoshop Creative Effects Workshop

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4/30/2011

Digital photographers using Adobe Photoshop sometimes get so caught up in working efficiently and mastering complex techniques that they can forget photography is at heart a creative endeavor. In this course photographer and author Tim Grey encourages you to explore how you can leverage the power of Photoshop to express your creative vision. Learn how to apply various creative effects related to tonality, color, artistic filters, creative borders, image montages, and much more. Along the way, see every detail of how these effects are achieved so you can adapt them to suit your own purposes. The course concludes with a series of projects that involve the use of multiple creative effects for a single image. Note: This course was recorded in Photoshop CS5, but was created with users of both Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS4 in mind.

Topics include:

Safely experimenting with creativity

Creating a black-and-white effect

Using Curves presets for creative effects

Applying a vignette

Using the Filter Gallery

Applying a Gradient Map adjustment

Creating a multiple exposure effect

Hand-painting an image

Creative projects

Skill Level Intermediate

2h 19m

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- Hi, I'm Tim Grey.Photographer, author and educator.I've written over a dozen books,taught numerous in-person workshops around the worldand created several video-training workshopswith video2brain.Photography is an art form, of course,and there are seemingly countless waysto express your creativity in the camera.This includes using exposure settings,choosing a particular lens,finding just the right vantage pointfrom which to photograph,waiting for the best lighting conditionsand many other considerations.With Photoshop, of course,you can take that creativity to new heightsas you'll see in the lessons in this course.

We'll start off by exploring some of the conceptsrelated to expressing creativity in Photoshopthen we'll dive right into some of the basic methodsfor applying creative adjustmentsto help you get a sense of work flowand methods in Photoshop.Next, we'll take a look at a wide varietyof creative effects you can apply.These include tonal effects, color effects,filter effects, image montages,artistic impressions and much, much more.After covering many creative effects,we'll also explore several real world projectsaimed at giving you a clearer ideaof how to consider which creative effectmight be most appropriate for a given photograph.

The images I use in each lesson are includedin a project files folder organizedinto folders by chapter namewith file names that reflect the content of the photo.I encourage you to use these imagesto follow along as you goand practice the techniques you'll learn.I've had great fun producing these videosand hope you find them enjoyable and informative.I'll hope to have the opportunity to seesome of the creative results you come up withafter completing this course.Enjoy.